On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:10:23PM -0300, Barbara Figueirido wrote: > hindered by the fact that there is no (known) software to replace the > legal-case management software adopted by > the vast majority of legal buros (consisting mostly of one kind of > proprietary software). > > I myself have been trying to develop some kind of replacement, using postgresql as the basis; what I have is a very > functional database reflecting the state of the different cases I handle, which This is really cool, and off the top of my head, I cannot think of any other applications that would adequately serve as case-management software. Using an SQL backend is definitely the way to go, as it can enable small-mid firms, as well as multiple platforms. > document-management integration and many other desirable features; nonetheless, This is something I have looked into. Personally, I keep my documents in an SVN version control repository, but I have come across some interesting projects (one was commercial, the other free. I forget the status of the source code) that do this and appear to do it well. One was mostly web-based. The other I think had clients. It looked very good, but I do not remember the name right now. I could probably find the links somewhere. As regards the programming language discussion from the previous thread: I cannot agree more. Language is important, but I see no reason why we should get bogged down in a discussion about which is best. The only time I think this would be relevant if we had a couple developers, who know the languages at issue, and they were trying to decide which would be best for a particular piece of software. But the discussion before was way to general to really be of use. Even if it was interesting. I never joined in that discussion because I do not really know much about programming, and was migrating my mail and subscription at the time. Personally, when I joined this list a couple years ago, my thought was that debian-lex would work toward creating a /system/ based upon Linux and OSS that is specifically targeted to the legal community. Although I envisioned a "distro", this could easily take the form of a tight group of application filling the various needs lawyers have in working with and for their clients. Kevin P.S. your signatures do not appear to be working. I get the following errors when attempting to verify your e-mail. I think your MTA may be reformatting your e-mail. [-- OpenSSL output follows (current time: Fri 16 May 2008 01:35:53 PM EDT) --] Verification failure 15617:error:21075075:PKCS7 routines:PKCS7_verify:certificate verify +error:pk7_smime.c:231:Verify error:unable to get local issuer certificate [-- End of OpenSSL output --] [-- The following data is signed --] [-- PGP output follows (current time: Fri 16 May 2008 01:35:53 PM EDT) --] gpg: CRC error; 736182 - DC3736 gpg: no signature found gpg: quoted printable character in armor - probably a buggy MTA has been used gpg: the signature could not be verified. Please remember that the signature file (.sig or .asc) should be the first file given on the command line. [-- End of PGP output --] -- In Vino Veritas http://astroturfgarden.com
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